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Jack Hobbs
John Berry Hobbs
Born: 16 December 1882, Cambridge
Died: 21 December 1963, Hove, Sussex
Major Teams: Surrey, Maharaj Kumar of Vizianagram's XI, England.
Known As: Jack Hobbs
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Medium
Test Debut: England v Australia at Melbourne, 2nd Test, 1907/08
Last Test: England v Australia at The Oval, 5th Test, 1930
Knighted for services to cricket 1953
Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1909, 1926
Selected as one of five Wisden cricketers of the century, 2000
Career Statistics:
TESTS
(career)
M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct St
Batting & Fielding 61 102 7 5410 211 56.94 15 28 17 0
Balls M R W Ave BBI 5 10 SR Econ
Bowling 376 15 165 1 165.00 1-19 0 0 376.0 2.63
FIRST-CLASS
(career: 1905 - 1934)
M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct St
Batting & Fielding 834 1325 107 61760 316* 50.70 199 273 340 0
R W Ave BBI 5 10
Bowling 2704 108 25.03 7-56 3 0
- Explanations of First-Class and List A status courtesy of the ACS.
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Profile:
Jack Hobbs is a strong candidate for the greatest batsman ever, with a career
that was interrupted by the first world war, but still resulted in 197
centuries. Although growing up in Cambridge, he played for Surrey, and became
the consumate opening batsman, with a solid defence and a powerful attacking
game, showing mastery of most strokes. He was known as one of the best runners
between the wickets in the game, especially with his regular opening partners,
Hayward for Surrey, and Sutcliffe for England. He was remarkable in his ability
to play high quality bowling on bad pitches, especially Australian sticky
wickets. He was also a splendid fielder, running out many from his favoured
position in the covers, and a respectable fast-medium change bowler. "He had all
the gifts of a great batsman. They included the qualities of understanding and
sensitivity to a degree that made him unique. Others scored faster; hit the ball
harder; more obviously murdered bowling. no one else, though, ever batted with
more consumate skill than his, which was based essentially on an infallible
sympathy with the bowled ball. Although he could improvise with quite impish
virtuosity, it is no exaggeration to say that frequently- even generally- the
spectator felt that the stroke he played seemed so natural as to be inevitableor as if a chreographer had designed it as the rhythmically and poetically
logical consequence of the bowler's delvery." From "Jack Hobbs- profile of 'the
Master'" by John Arlott, Published by John Murray, 1981.
(David Liverman, Jan 1998)
Last Updated: Monday, 29-Jul-2002 11:03:20 GMT
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